I keep myself continually immersed in the worlds of literature, education, clothing, queerness, and righteous feminist anger. I occasionally walk in the woods.
Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Corin Tucker, Terry Jacobus, Debbi Stoller, and if he were alive, Shakespeare. But he's very much dead, and meeting a dead person would be kind of icky. You know.... all that decay.The members of Guster are now off the list as I already have met them, which is badass. I also recently met Taylor Mali, and he is a class act.
Guster, Radiohead, Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Rasputina, Modest Mouse, the Beatles, Le Tigre, Chris Titchner, Beth Wood, Suzanne Vega, Postal Service, Tori Amos, Matt Pond PA, Bright Eyes, Interpol, Talking Heads, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, John Butler Trio, Animal Collective, Pavement, Oysterhead, Hedwig and Velvet Goldmine soundtracks, and, of course, ridiculous amounts of Spoken Word (mostly the Spoken Word Revolution, Nadine Wolf Budbill, and W. Clayton Scott).
Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Donnie Darko, Pi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Requiem For a Dream (even tho that movie will FUCK YOU UP), Fight Club, Ghost World, Amelie, does the Hellsing series count as a movie?, The Matrix (but only the first one), Stand By Me, Little Women, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Clerks, Dogma, Contact, IT, Monty Python and the Holy Grail... I'm sure I'm missing some. I'm in love with good movies.
Simpsons, Good Eats, House. Hugh Laurie and Alton Brown don't know it yet, but I will marry them both.Somehow.
Get cozy, here comes the big education:Jonah's Gourd Vine (THESIS yeah!), Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Walden Pond, Things Fall Apart, The Reader, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hobbit, Anna Karenina, Alice in Wonderland, The Giver, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, Great Expectations, Pink Think, BUST Guide to the New Girl Order, Bitch, She's Come Undone, Dante's Inferno, Will in the World, Hothead Paisan, Spoken Word Revolution, Body Wars, Don't Think Twice, The Car, White Noise, Sleepaway, Gulliver's Travels, Beowulf, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo, Catcher in the Rye, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Bartleby the Scrivener, White Noise, Great Jones Street, Brave New World, She's Not There, David Boring and Ghost World (both comics by Daniel Clowes), Fun Home, Hothead Paisan, Shutterbug Follies, The Bean Trees, Walden, MAUS I and II, Persepolis I and II, The Vagina Monologues...wow, this is getting a little long, even for me.Look. I read and teach books for a living, just ASK if you wanna know.
Justin Chapman